Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...merchants to open up again, sized up the visitors and forthwith picked up a half-dozen and carried them to the shallow, convenient, cold Red Cedar. Downtown strikers heard and came fast but students came faster. More than eight strikers went in-around 20, I believe, for I saw and counted ten in at once...
...Republican among Republicans, a young socialite who loved polo ponies and show dogs, dinner parties and fine wines. He had inherited a sugar fortune and married Huberta Potter, a Kentucky belle. Like Saint Paul crossing the plain of Damascus, George Earle in 1932, crossing the valley of Depression, suddenly saw a great light. He promptly hit the sawdust trail to political redemption...
...some 48 hours Adolf Hitler grew more and more excited about the "insult to German honor" which he saw in the coldness of Britain and France to all schemes for doing anything about the dent in the Leipzig. He was also emboldened by the daily bad news, from Russia, bitterest foe of Germany (see p. 18). Telling old von Neurath not to stir out of Berlin, Herr Hitler rasped orders which sent flashing off to London this stiff announcement: "The situation caused by the repeated attacks of the Reds in Spain on German warships does not allow the absence...
...take a dominant line with Hitler & Mussolini. These dictators had meanwhile announced that, while Germany and Italy would not withdraw from the London Nonintervention Committee on Spain, they would withdraw their warships from its neutral patrol of Spanish waters. In this move by Rome & Berlin, Prime Minister Chamberlain saw an opening to suggest that British and French ships would be willing to fill any gaps in the patrol-a suggestion which Der Führer and II Duce angrily rejected within 48 hours-and Mr. Chamberlain went on to make a speech soon warmly praised by German papers. "I must...
Visiting U. S. intellectuals, emerging from recent tours of Leftist Spain, have stressed the present efficiency of native commanders and troops, declared they saw nothing of General Emilio Kleber (TIME, April 5), the hard-bitten proletarian warmaker dispatched from Moscow when it seemed Madrid was about to fall. Some have hopefully opined, "Kleber may have left Spain." Last week, according to United Press, General Kleber openly assumed command on the Huesca front northeast of Madrid. Same day Leftist war planes went into action, dueling above Huesca province in one of the great air battles of the war. At one time...